>>>>> "hl" == Hugh Lawson <hglawson(at)nr(dot)infi(dot)net> writes:
hl> I am asking a dumb question here, so please be patient. Does
hl> this mean that given pg.el you have to write elisp functions in
hl> order to make use of it?
hl>
hl> Is the "defun demo()" above an example of such a function? If I
hl> understand correct, to use pg.el, I would write an elisp function in
hl> emacs and then evaluate it. Have I got this right?
Hi Hugh,
That's right. demo is an example of the type of elisp a programmer
would write to access PostgreSQL from Emacs. You can also play around
with it interactively:
ELISP> (setq conn (pg:connect "template1" "postgres" "postgres"))
<struct cl ...>
ELISP> (setq res (pg:exec conn "SELECT * from scshdemo WHERE a=42"))
<struct cl ...>
ELISP> (pg:result res :status)
"SELECT"
etc
I intend to get together with someone else who has written some table
browsing stuff for Emacs to produce a browsing interface to PostgreSQL
for the end user, but I haven't had time yet.
--
Eric Marsden
It's elephants all the way down